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THE NEWS. Compiled From Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. Linn O'Neill, of Toledo, O., aged five years and blind, one of the greatest musical prodigies the world ever produced, died from the effects of the heat. During a storm at Cleveland many small boats on the lake were wrecked but no lives were lost. Bob Pierson and Morris Jacobs, pugilists, who attempted to fight near Cincinnati, were arrested and fined $100 each and sent to jail for 50 days. Harry K. Brown, exchange clerk of the Bullion and Exchange bank of Carson, Nev., is said to be a defaulter to the extent of $75,000. The Security bank of Duluth, Minn., one of the leading banks of the city, closed its doors with deposits of $800,000. A fire on the water front of Norfolk, Va., destroyed property valued at $100,000. Five lives were lost in a fire which occurred in A. K. Warren & Co.'s electrical supply manufactory in New York, the property loss being $100,000. The Murray Hill bank in New York suspended payments with liabilities of $500,000. S. K. Martin, president of the S. K. Martin Lumber company of Chicago, the largest lumber firm in the world, died at Alma, Mich., aged 59 years. Joseph Kohler and his wife were killed by the cars at a crossing near Canton, O. Fire in the penitentiary at Anamosa, Ia., destroyed the large library-room of 8,000 volumes, the tailor shop, the dining-room and chapel. The hot wave was broken in the northwest on the 11th, but continued in the east and south. On the date named 146 persons died from the heat in New York, 22 in Brooklyn, 18 in Philadelphia, 12 in St. Louis, 16 in Terre Haute, Ind., 8 in Chicago and several in other towns, the total reported being 265. The reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country are favorable, corn especially having been greatly benefitted by the hot weather. During a thunder-shower at Rogers, Ark., B. J. Bryant and his five-year-old daughter were struck by lightning and killed. W. H. Treworgy, wholesale lumber dealer in Boston, failed for $200,000. North & Taylor, private bankers in Chicago, suspended payments, with liabilities of $100,000. Lena Rivitt, aged 16, and Cora Goanette, aged ten, were drowned while bathing in Pinedale pond near Athol, Mass. A ten-year-old boy named Mills killed the two little children of Frank Powers at Hollywood, N. C., because they would not stop crying. By a flood in the Tiptown river in the vicinity of Bourbon, Ind., houses, barns and crops were destroyed and 25 persons lost their lives. E. S. Sanborn & Co., of Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of ladies' shoes, failed for $100,000. A strike has been ordered in all mines in Ohio where the men are working for less than the rate established at the last scale meeting, and all mines operated under the contract lease system. Josiah E. Kelley, for 27 years assistant cashier of the First national bank at South Bend, Ind.. killed himself because of a shortage of $24.000 in his accounts. The Manhansett hotel at Shelter Island, one of the largest and most fashionable of the summer hotels on the Long Island coast, was burned, the loss being $100,000. The Michigan Buggy company's factory at Kalamazoo was burned, the loss being $100,000. Miss Celia Rose, 24 years old, is in jail at Mansfield, O., charged with killing her father, mother and brother with poison. In a wreck on the Lake Shore road near Otis, Ind., Engineer James Griffin and Fireman Michael Roach, both of Elkhart, Ind., were killed. The Knights and Ladies of Industry, a benevolent order with headquarters in St. Louis, went out of existence. S. F. Myers & Co., manufacturing jewelers in New York city, failed for $500,000. During a storm at Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity six lives were sacrificed and thousands of dollars' worth of property laid waste.
